The Swindon Town Sentinel
Match5 Sep 2026
Gavin Kilkenny wins it after the whistle should have gone
91 minutes played. Gavin Kilkenny found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Barrow AFC went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Gavin Kilkenny delivers — 7.76
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Gavin Kilkenny scored, was marked 7.76, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Swindon Town
Fabiano Rust was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match5 Sep 2026
Swindon Town get the job done against Barrow AFC
A 2‑1 win over Barrow AFC, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Ollie Palmer
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ollie Palmer, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Fabiano Rust
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ollie Palmer dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Aidan Borland
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Aidan Borland has come out of that comparison in the side, and Swindon Town have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market7 Sep 2026
Swindon Town and Paul Glatzel are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Player ratings Paul Glatzel changes it off the bench
- Market Swindon Town bring in Daniele Montevago on loan
- Market The Filozofe Mabete story refuses to die